Uncapture

Quick meaning: Uncapture is a verb meaning (rare) To perform the reverse of a capture, especially in chess variants such as Retrochess.

Meaning

(rare) To perform the reverse of a capture, especially in chess variants such as Retrochess.

More Meanings

1. (rare) The act of uncapturing.

Example Sentences

After an uncapture by White, Nd5xNe3, and an uncapture by Black, Nf3xNe3, the position is: White Ka1, Na3, d5, e3; Black Ke5, Ne6, e4, f$[…]

Finally, uncapture WhP on h file. So in the diagram position Black's last move cannot be (a) P(g3) x P(f2) as white pawn must retract to g2 first; or (b) P(b6)xc5, as WhP has been captured on h file to allow promotion of BhP without a capture,[…]

Unmoving pieces cannot capture, but they can uncapture, leaving a piece in their wake. This is simulated via interhyperboard communication. The uncapture operation can be computed by using outer products, corresponding to the parallel broadcast, or spread broadcast.

The reports of the medical officers state that of 773 convicts who had arrived up to the 16th June, 1858, there had occurred 64 deaths In hospitals ; that 140 had escaped uncapture⁴, or had committed suicide; and 87 had been executed; leaving 481 only of the number.

Word Forms

• uncaptures
• uncapturing
• uncaptured

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include capture, unencapsulate, decaptivate, unconvert, unacquire, ungrab.

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